2 | In 'A Daughter’s Death', the New Yorker's Jennifer Gonnerman meets Taylonn Murphy, the father of a star high-school athlete who was killed and who now spends his time confronting the causes of violence in New York City.

5 | "Mars has always had a certain fascination for us Earthlings," writes Game Of Thrones author George RR Marin in the Guardian "it was one of the original planets, the Fab Five of antiquity, the “wanderers” who refused to march in step with the stars, but made their own way through the heavens." His plotted history of the red planet's presence in science fiction is a delight.